Jerry "Atari" Dunham on Germans: >Then I must ask why Germans are such a large part of the Atari groups Many Germans own Ataris. When I lived there, I knew about as many people with Ataris as people with PCs. Almost no Macs. (that was over 4 years ago.) >I can think of is that this group has a much more social orientation, and >anyone only interested in the technical aspects of bus ownership has to >wade through all of that to find what he wants. Germans, too, can be social ;) I must concede, however, that American sense of humor is not easily accessible. It took *me* a couple of months to get it--and I've known my American wife for 10 years now. >Any other theories? How about conditional probabilities: if a German owns a computer, then s/he is more likely to be hooked up to a net than an American. And: if a German owns a bus, then s/he probably uses it as a utility vehicle and doesn't find much time to play with e-mail. ;-) Sami dakhlia@wuecona.wustl.edu
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